AI TRENDS
News & Breakthroughs
AI for Coding: How Tools Like Cursor Are Revolutionizing the Future of Software Development and Beyond — Recently, Amazon revealed that it saved an astonishing 4,500 years on a project using AI coding tools, underscoring the transformative power of these technologies. Not hours or days, but years.
Nvidia's Earnings Report Today: Wall Street and Washington are closely monitoring Nvidia’s earnings, as the chipmaker's results are expected to significantly influence markets and reflect the strength of the AI boom. Analysts suggest that Nvidia's earnings report could have a more substantial impact on the market than recent comments by Fed Chair Jerome Powell, with the company's anticipated revenue surge being a key indicator of its global importance.
OpenAI has demonstrated its "Strawberry" project to federal officials and is reportedly working to launch a version by this fall. The larger version of Strawberry is being used to generate synthetic data for training OpenAI's next-generation model, code-named Orion, according to The Information.
Case Studies & AI Research
AI Adoption in Marketing Surges: What Nonprofits Need to Know. The latest HubSpot Blog’s AI Trends for Marketers Report reveals that AI usage among marketers has skyrocketed, increasing from 21% to 74% in just one year. For nonprofits, this highlights the growing importance of AI in driving productivity and growth, enabling organizations to maximize their impact with fewer resources and focus more on high-value, creative projects.
AI TOOLS
Modeling
Design
Marketing
Search
HubSpot's AI Search Grader evaluates your brand's visibility in AI-powered search engines by analyzing brand sentiment and share-of-voice scores based on four fields you provide. Completing an optional email form unlocks additional reporting, including detailed sentiment analysis, brand strengths and weaknesses, and competitor comparisons.
Content Creation
Video
Images
Among the dozens of AI image generators, two standouts from that pack (which includes Dall-E, Firefly, Stable Diffusion, and Playground AI) are Midjourney and Grok 2. Comparing the two, Midjourney enjoys a well-deserved reputation of generating stunningly lifelike images. Grok is known for being able to conjure onscreen virtually any idea imaginable, but there are serious concerns about copyright restriction and longstanding societal norms.
Text
Fundraising
Donor Analytics
Copilots and Operational Efficiency
Data Management & Visualization
Engagement
Chatbots & AI Assistants
Artifacts on Anthropic’s Claude AI are now accessible to everyone, including on mobile, with a new feature that allows users to highlight text and choose to 'improve' or 'explain' it. Additionally, the Anthropic team released this behind-the-scenes video detailing the creation of artifacts.
Leveraging AI and ML Assistants like ChatGPT and Gemini for Winning Government Proposals
Social Media
COMMENTARY
Charity Spring
Other Commentary
Protecting Cyber Infrastructure amid Great Power Competition: 750,000 miles of the world’s undersea fiber-optic cables carry more than 95% of international data globally. The cables are highly vulnerable to accidental disruption such as from ships’ anchors or natural disasters like earthquakes, or saboteurs operating in the gray zone of deniable attacks short of war, this new report from the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies warns.
Future Forecasts
Of the 208 startups in Y Combinator's S24 directory, 156 are focused on AI-related products, reflecting a significant shift in venture capital, with nearly half of all US investment last quarter going to AI companies. It's uncertain whether Y Combinator is specifically selecting AI startups, more founders are gravitating toward AI, or if startups are labeling their products as AI-related to attract investors. In contrast, only 33 Y Combinator startups were focused on crypto and Web3 in 2022, highlighting the changing trends in tech innovation.